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Damn, son

Oh hey, that means the ILF preorders are shipping.

D.o.S. wrote:Ooooh.
That's a nice little board right there.

I think I'll give this a go as a board for a week or so, though I may add a rat and another delay. The VS and MC are my favorite of the bunch.

So, what are the problems with the Superego ? I've never used one but it looks like an interesting effect...

oscillateur wrote:So, what are the problems with the Superego ? I've never used one but it looks like an interesting effect...

Hollow sound - The way it captures your sounds can sometimes be unflattering to say the least. This can be fixed with adding shit like an EQ to the loop, but it would've been so easy to add a filter/tone knob from the get go.
Jack Placement - I know, the eternal discussion, but the addition of the loop makes this twice as annoying.
Level knobs - This one grinds me up a bit. They are redundant and useless as the level of your playing affects it more than the knob ever will...except if you boost it. I'm not sure my last unit was faulty, but that made it sound fucking hideous.
The switch - A soft switch is asking for too much, I was scared to break the switch on my last one.
Auto mode - has no fucking threshold, making it useless unless it's first on your board.

That being said, there's so much this pedal does that no other can, it's surreal.
If I were designing a freeze/hold style effect, I would make it have a LPF/HPF knob (maybe a stacked knob so you can get some bandpass craziness), and instead of Dry/Wet levels I would only have a wet level and a dry kill switch. Then I would make sure the jacks are on top and the switch is soft.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-mJhde6IMY[/youtube]

I think the biggest trick with it is working around how unforgiving it is. It samples and then works with whatever is happening at the exact instant that the button is depressed...so if that is not at a consistent instant in the cycle of your chords attack, you get vastly different timbre and volume. I've had best results by writing the press of the switch into the music mentally, at the exact same beat after a chord change...and then being very very conscious to play consistently. Sloppiness is magnified by the Superego.

All that said, I just spent an hour playing thru it, and it was a spiritual experience...so that pedal isn't leaving my board until something mind-blowing comes along. Just gotta play carefully when I latch that baby on.

For me, auto mode requires such a giant level hitting it's front end to even trigger it that I have to put it after some considerable boost or it only catches every third note or so. Hehe.

Chasebliss, are you taking notes?

I have a Super Ego way in on my signal chain (6th pedal I think) and never had any problems with levels in auto mode. No boost in front, but I have a buffer early in the chain. The few times it's hard to trig it's solved by turning the Egos effect volume up. It's even quite dynamic and pick sensitive in auto I think.

I found a working Marshall JCM800 4211 2x12 combo on the side of the road today. Pretty cool, just needs a clean up. Been sitting in some guys garage for like 20 years or so I'd say

It just occurred to me that it (or the freeze) could have an ADSR mode - stomp to trigger and capture, then the volume of the frozen sound is envelope controlled. Next step beyond fast/latch/slow.

HighDeaf1080p wrote:Chase Bliss, are you taking notes?

Sounds like having a compressor before the superego is a good idea maybe? I GASsed for that pedal for quite some time, and then when I actually played it I didn't like it. Kinda similar to how I felt about the pog2

This happened, somewhat "accidentally"...

Can't post pics, sorry, but I got a Gallien Krueger 800rb yesterday, pretty fucking pumped. It is loud.

Finally got this fucker built. Right now it's just neck pickup straight into the input. Bridge pickup isn't wired at all. I like the way the pickup sounds straight to the jack. I'm probably not going to put a volume or tone control on it.

Schweet! What's the body color?

omg neon that is way to sexy. I want more info on this? like info what would I have to do/pay to get something similar? Seriously that guitar looks like a dream